Necessities for Everyone
The personal care industry consists of a wide range of products dedicated to health and beauty, including hair, skin and nail care, sunscreen, cosmetics, toothpaste and perfume. These products are everyday necessities in most societies and they are consumed by all age groups, from young children to the elderly. As populations increase around the world, so does demand for personal care products. What’s more, such demand tends to be relatively steady even in down economies. The global market for personal care products is estimated to be around $426 billion in 2011 according to Euromonitor and growth rates are quite healthy for the foreseeable future.
KGI serves most segments of the personal care industry with a particular focus on hair and skin care. Our chemicals division offer a wide range of surfactants and blends for making soaps, body washes and shampoos and we provide the technical support to help customers optimize their formulations from the standpoint of cost, appearance and performance. We also offer many oleochemicals, mineral oils and specialty additives, as well as colorants and fragrances to help make your products stand out in the marketplace. And, if you are seeking to eliminate certain chemicals from your formulations, such as sulfates, parabens, petrochemicals or cocamide diethanolamine, our GreenLab team can assist you with suitable replacements. Conversely, our packaging division offers many solutions for the industry, including dispensing caps, lotion pumps and fine mist sprayers, not to mention containers and jars in both plastic and glass. Our GreenLab can also help make your packaging more environmentally sustainable, including with containers made from recycled content.
Below is a partial list of finished products for which we offer both chemical and packaging solutions:
- Baby Care
- Body Wash
- Deodorant
- Hand Soap + Sanitizer
- Hair Styling
- Pet Care
- Shampoo + Conditioner
- Skin Care
- Sunscreen
- Toothpaste
If you manufacture any of these items, or some other personal care product not listed above, please contact us today learn about how our chemical and packaging solutions can add value for your operation.
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Personal Care + Cosmetics Ingredients
Castor Oil USP
Cetearyl Alcohol and Ceteareth 20 (Blend)
Cetearyl Alcohol and Polysorbate 60 (Blend)
Cocoa Butter USP
Deet 99%
Glyceryl Stearate and PEG-100 Stearate (Blend)
Glycolic Acid 70%
Hydrogen Peroxide 35%
Hydrogen Peroxide 50%
Lanolin Anhydrous USP
Lanolin Oil
Methyl Gluceth-20 (Glucam E-20)
Oleochemicals
Petrolatum
Amber Snow White USP White Cosmetic Yellow
Polyethylene Glycols
PPG-20 Methyl Glucose Ether (Glucam P-20)
Preservatives
Propylene Glycol USP
Silicones
Surfactants
Sodium Bromate
Squalane
Waxes
Candelilla Wax Carnauba Wax Emulsifying Wax Synthetic Bees Wax
White Mineral Oils
White Mineral Oil 50 White Mineral Oil 70 White Mineral Oil 90 White Mineral Oil 130 White Mineral Oil 350 USP
Zinc Oxide
California’s Prop 65 Identifies Cocamide Diethanolamine as a Carcinogen
KGI Offers Multiple Replacements
In June 2012, the California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment added cocamide diethanolamine (cocamide DEA) to the California Proposition 65 list of chemicals known to cause cancer in humans. If a personal care product containing a Prop 65 chemical is sold in California, the product label must contain a Toxicity Warning to be in compliance with California. In August 2013, the Center for Environmental Health, a nonprofit, sued over 100 personal care product companies for failing to warn the public that their products contained a known carcinogen. In response to the lawsuit, many of these companies have already settled and pledged to eliminate cocamide DEA from their formulations. Since California historically has been a bellwether state, we believe that similar national regulations concerning cocamide DEA are in the pipeline.
Cocamide DEA is a chemically-modified form of coconut oil that has long been used as a foaming agent or viscosity builder in many personal care products like shampoos and hand soaps. KGI offers several cocamide DEA replacements that will perform these same functions as good, if not better, than cocamide DEA. If you are looking to eliminate cocamide DEA from your formulations, please contact our GreenLab for more information for suitable replacement products.
Press release announcing lawsuit filed by Center for Environmental Health
See the INFO / EDUCATION content on this page to learn more.
Info / Education
Learn and prepare your products for the future.
California’s Proposition 65
Requires businesses to notify Californians about significant amounts of chemicals in the products they purchase, in their homes or workplaces, or that are released into the environment.
Prop 65 Background
List of Prop 65 Chemicals
Lawsuit Announced
U.S. EPA’s Safer Choice Program
Formerly "Design for Environment"General Info / The Blog
The Safer Choice Label
Safer Choice Standard + Criteria
Resources for Product Manufacturers
Safer Chemical Ingredient List
Safer Choice Product Listing
FTC Guides
The Federal Trade Commission's Guides for the Use of Environmental Marketing Claims (the “Green Guides”)Resources
Additional Items of note.
Cleangredients
The definitive marketplace for safer ingredients.Consumer Safety Product Association (CSPA)
Consumer Product Ingredient DictionaryNonylphenol Ethoxylates
May 2012 Alternatives Assessment for Nonylphenol EthoxylatesSafer Detergents Stewardship Initiative (SDSI)
Read more EPA.govWalmart
Implementation Guide for Policy on Sustainable Chemistry in Consumables Surfactants:
Building Greener Chemicals
Watch this Science Nation video, a great introduction to surfactant chemistry and the possibilities of new bio-surfactants that are made from renewable resources